UPDATE 13TH AND 14TH
The video has been made, and with it I posted somewhere it had about 10-12 problems/bugs, including motor mounts.
Today bleed out all the air. Again, I did use another pump to pump in fluid and pump the air out. Tis works well for a piston pump. Later I will vacuum bleed. It all looks like a plumbers paradise. There are 5 check/shutoff valves, and you got to remember what does what and when. Other wise you blow the tank.
Anywaz after the air was out, I thought maybe I'd hit the switch, knowing that it just was not ready and something else could FU. Well it did not, This was like three times the action of the first video, it was getting dark and I really was not in the mood to play hopper. The batteries did not last (see next update)
(video #1 of 4)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6-98zdMF_4 This was made last week, not even close to being perfected.
The coupling has been modified to fit the MFX, hopefully my neighbor can weld it this week. It needs to be welded like cast iron, heat it up, then weld at both ends in a vise, There is a grade 2 threaded rod inside of the coupling, This was the best idea I could come up with, outside a machine shop that welds. Then when the welding is done it needs to cool nice and slow.
So now I need to get some more bugs out, (there is always some weak area that will crop up sooner or later). Then test it with the MFX, I might have the patience to fire up the saco, so others can see with a little imagination what it can do with a #11 Marz. Then it's on to what I really have planned out!!
A heads up, I think, (think) I can get 2-3" out of the saco and 11's. But it's not really worth bothering with, it's the MFX that should shine.
BUT this is an area I have never been to, in the 70's there was no pump head larger than the Stone #8. (there were others, but would not fit the standard block, another thread, another time). So we are hoping the #11 will work as expected, if not, then it's the #9
update 3/14/13
at 6:30 PM tonight, after I grounded the motor and hooked up the noids in parallel, doubled up on the cables and replaced another o-ring and then vacuum bleeding the system for about 45 minutes, I thought what the heck, I started hitting the switch, the batteries were sounding real weak.
Anyways I was about to button it all up for the night, but decided to try to hop it anyways, you had to have been there. The piston tank was not even charged. On a slant and on soft ground with the tires digging into the dirt, I could swear I hit 1" yeah I know no big deal, once I limit the travel of the a-arms, I might get 2" ANYWAYS, hopefully within two weeks you will see the video posted on youtube, of a 24VDC hopper in action,
Anyways I still need to fix that 1/2 burnt off battery post. I am thinking of pouring liquid solder that melts at a lower temp into the burn out area, if this works I will post that on you tube, so all those with missing battery posts take note.
